I gave up reading your blog about the same time i had to start wading through Michaels posts.
I am sure he post valuable information if you have the time to pick out the 4 lines of information surrounded by all the other 600 lines if text.
80/20
If he could just consolidate the info into a bitesize format i am sure it would make better reading

Hang on here
I think you are giving the guy too much of a slating here.
Yes it may have been a crock of shit but 90% of the stuff i read about seo is garbage.
Just because he is a bit behind and isnt really clued up on seo isnt a reason to let loose on him.
He isnt as bad as the Traffic Power guys that blatantly rip people off and get site banned in return for dollars.
Whenever you care about a subject in the way we do, you will always hate misrepresentation and bull but he is just someone trying to get publicity for his site.
Maybe one day he will look back on it with disgust at what he has said and maybe he will realise he is misinformed but everyone has to start somewhere.

I was saying webprofessor was talking trash.
He dosent know who seoplebian is and he dosent know we are friends.
Sorry i was feeling a bit confrontational and trying to wind him up ;)
And you are trying to wind me up here Rand.
You know that i wouldnt have a clue what `expository` means and you have used big words on purpose to confuse me.

Black hat seo and pay per click fraud is not the same subject.
As soon as you mention click fraud they turn from being white/black hats to criminals.
I am all up for discussing click fraud and theft in general but to just say `talk about black hat and click fraud` is completely whacked.
I know loads of so called respectable online store owners that hire coders to build click bots to cut out the competition.
Russian fraud Coders, Indian clickers,,
Nothing to do with black hat seo.
You will proabably cause some controversy posting about black hat seo on your blog.
It may not help in building your brand because black hat seo and white dont seem to mix on the same site (imo) but it should pick up some nice backlinks for you.

I recommend Scottfish that posted the link above.
He is terrible at the black hat seo but rock on at natural and gradual link aquisition for 100% clean and white long lasting results.
Area makes no difference on the interweb as the technology makes talking on skype just like being next door to someone.

I have no doubt they do.
The worst spammers are the ones that do a bit of whitehat and preach white hat but in secret they assault the serps on a daily basis.
Ones like me that shout about black hat are just beginners compared to some of the high profile white hats that we see daily on the forums saying serp spam is bad.

The Plebian is reading and he is reading all about the privacy issues with great interest.
I have a real feeling that something massive is going to happen.
I am pretty sure very soon that all pr0n will be banned from the web and there will be much tighter controls and restrictions on who acesses it.
Remember that domain name we spoke about earlier in the year?
.xxx
I am expecting an announcement very soon that you will need to put all adult content on a .xxx domain and that will need some kind of restricted browser to view it.
Also i think that there are people out there that are terrified at the moment becuase of some of the past searches they will have done.
I have got a static ip thankfully and it was brand new and clean as a whisle when i got it but if the government starts doing witch hunts based on ip there will be many people in the clink and some wrongly accused of things due to the lack of abilty and excess of power that govenments have.

Dosent work in my opinion..
Remember the infamous `private detectives` site?
Thousands of people were searching that term and then skipping straight past the top 3 and clicking on no.4
I would have thought this would have a massive effect on the site and it would be a surefire no.1 because of the publicity bloop making it look more relevent than the top 3 that were ignored.
So far i believe that it `may` be a factor but it is not a factor that is worth much thought rather than a blog post like this.
I would love to be proved wrong though and somebody to show me that it does have an effect.

This is one of those things that is just on top of the recent proof that google is evil for money.
I can see a real pattern forming and the once rosy and positive google will very quickly turn into the `dominating and oppressive`.
Let the fun begin

I am not one to be paranoid and have nothing to fear from anyone getting my search information but there will be a LOT of people worried about this.
Its enough of a reason to use proxys with a few stops in them, ditch the gmail, not use analytics and just generally start watching your back.
The fact that big brother is watching has just come public and this is the start of something big.

From what you have said it was clear they dont understand the potential of the web.
Ignorance about what we do is still rampant in a lot of places.
Remember that you were the web expert in that room and you live and breathe seo and internet but they will have been `old school`.

Well mine is a bit different.
I very rarely answer the phone and take a week to answer emails.
I am thinking about going into the consulting business so i may answer my phone one day and open that folder of unanswered emails that has been buiding up for the last 3 months.
What i will probably do if i decide to consult is have a voicemail for people to leave their details on.
I wouldnt want people calling me at all hours and if they really wanted me to work with them they could wait until i had the time to get back to them.

There is a book called broken windows and it is sort of similar to what you are saying.
The book Broken Windows says that if there is just a simple flaw like a spelling mistke (lol) people will instantly assume that the same lack of detail runs right through the entire business and creeps into larger and more important parts.
But design is for sissies and gets in the way of your spider food.

Yep.
Dosent suprise me in the least.
ITO Internet Traffic Optimizer (here and the future)
WTO Website Traffic Optimizer (Here and now)
SEO Search Engine Optimizer (dying a death)
Over time a lot of sectors on the web will rely much less on search and although search will still be an important factor, if you are doing the ITO right on your site the old fashioned SEO will just be an nice addition to the traffic you already get from the reliable and real places.
Google especially is now too unreliable and unpredicatiable to concentrate on with the amount of effort we did in the past.

Lololololol
Btw,, have you added that link to my site yet?
You know i posted all the errors on your blog and i told you how i wanted to get some money for me sick cat and you dont seem to be answering your phone even though i phoned you like 20 times today and why are you not replying to my mails?

Someone just pointed me to this and i am truly laughing so hard my ribs are hurting.
I could be offended if i know what a `verb` or `wordsmithing` was.
I think it is in reference to the way i just hit the keyboard and hope it makes a sentence.
Ironically i actually typed a page of content today to front a small autogenned site and someone spotted it was mine from the typos.

I use this
www.rssreader.com
I saw this thread in it when it pinged.
There may be better out there but i find it does what i need.
One problem is that it pops up when there is new messages which leads you to read them which is like 5 minites and i generally forget what i was doing before it popped up.

Illicit software downloaded from the internet.
And where do i get that software as it may be fun?
Strange i dont know what the software is when it was me that was using it.
I said `dont use my private detectives site becuse it has my old home adress on where i used to live and of course he used it.
I guess it is true what they say about reporters.

I have just been browsing seochat and the advice that is been given to the newbies is shocking.
Its not just misleading but truly bad.
I guess we have all moved on already and my chouce of forums now is Syndk8, Seorefugee and Cr8asite
Better and nicer/

This is really funny how people are treating this blog comment system like a forum page.
I wonder how long it will be before the page refuses to load completely becuse it is starting to slow for me.
Sooner or later the sock will time out as someone is commenting but i think that is about 30 good comments away.

I think there was a lot of a knee jerk reaction here and a lot of people left without a good reason.
From what i see, people were a bit bored and looking for a bit of trouble anyway.
One for all and all for one i think the motto is.
It will all come out in the wash though.

Everyone chill here.
We are all together on here and it will all work out.
Peace and love to all men (women too).
There is no point anybody bickering.
Everyone on this blog and on that forum will be able to find whereever we settle.
I wont be hanging around cre8asite too much becuse its just not my scene but i will always come and check in on my friends from the now defunked seochat.

Hey anthonysea
I dont think that rand will delete your comments and i dont mind you having a go at me all the time.
I have been briefed on your history and why you attack people a lot in forums and i understand.
Feel free to use me as a beating post when you want becuse i feel for ya man and realy do feel sorry for you now i know what happened.
Keep the faith Antonycea and dont let them grind you down.

well i feel for all you guys.
I had some trouble the other day and it was not nice.
I cant create a white hat forum becuse it conflicts with my black hat one but rand,, remember the question i asked you a while ago.
I wait announcements of the new foruma member an ex member creates.
I will help in any way i can

It looks like a great free offer and is very tempting but as i am a google hater that has even removed the google toolbar to keep my dta to myself i will have to thank google but say no thankyou.
Although i think i will try it on at least one of my sites that i dont care about just for research in how it works.

I am very interested in what you find becuse i am about to change the entire business model of syndk8 and that will include ramming it with adverts but spookily the other day i was thinking of copying the ad format you have and putting ads on the right and content on the left.
Your post has come at just the right time for me.

Looks like Swayne has completely missed the whole point of the exercise.
If this becomes a craze it will make the work we do much more valuable.
MMM,,, i see a lot of possibilitys here.
A while ago we we saying on seochat about building and ranking sites just to sell in the future.
It was decided it wasnt viable.
Looks like it maybe the time to start planting those seeds.

I notice that a lot of them hust have a list of terms and are just repeating the same ones at randon times.
They are supposed to look like recent searches but looking at my own search engines and comparing those there is no way they are real recent searches.
Some of them are quite good though.
I had my reasons for asking the question and it led to me watching them all for about 3 hours each and i notice that the german ones are laden with porn terms so be careful and i notice splat search just spits out a random set of real estate terms repeated and randomised.
The ussprite one seemes to be the best for actually showing searches but i also suspect that one is on a loop and goes back to the start as well.

None of those figures suprise me at all especially the one about the teenage girls.
Historically the age you quote is an age when girls go through a lot of inner turmoil and they have always kept private diarys to release their feelings so as a blog is like an online diary i guess they are predisposed to typing dribble or writing it for a few hours a nite.

Sometimes i think that we think too much.
Maybe their website does have way too many splash pages and gateways and the first thing we look at is `how do they get se traffic?`
But suprisingly there are people that actually do leave the computer and go and set up meetings.
The website is maybe a business card add-on and they use that to give a bit of bulk to their business card.
Its like the people that are ranked for `search engine optimization` in the serps.
It dosent make them a better seo than joe soap that never got round to building his site promoting himself due to him being overloaded with business but more that they spent more money and time on the ranking of their own site than they did clients.
I like the wong site and it probably does the job.

You sort of get what you pay for.
I have low overheads and low running costs due to my situation (just me and Wit the cat) so i am able to give a lower price than most people with my skillset.
For the lower price i charge a client would get much more than they would from paying a corporate company and would actually get someone that is prepared to give them the full service and dedication that a corporate company never could.
I consider myself very cheap at $160 per hour.
Although i may have to raise my prices due to my impending purchase of a dog (Chihuahua) that i am going to call Randfish.

Rand.
You know i am the kind that normally keeps quiet on subject like this.
NOT
I think if you post it you need to deal with it.
If you are speaking about anyone in a negative way on a blog you need to deal with the consequences of doing such a thing.
I hope it all gets settled in a way that makes both parties happy but if you do the `crime` you need to do the time.
If i blogged bad stuff about you i am sure you would be a bit pissed at me and throw a wobbler but i would be prepared for it as i was typing it and would stand up and take the punishment as a man.
I do post some nasty stuff about people who have been bad to me and maybe i will think more carefully about it now.

You are 100% right.
People think that the weak backlink from a forum will help them.
For a long time i have been under the belief that you should post relevent sigs in relevent forums.
Why identify the site as one associated with seo?
Probably becuse people dont think.